Toward an Integrated Plan for Digital Preservation and Access to Primary Anthropological Data (AnthroDataDPA): A Four-Field Workshop

该奖项支持制定一项全面的计划，用于数字保存和获取原始人类学数据，包括田野笔记、照片、测量和记录。目标是一项战略性和协调的计划，其中包括数字化的方法和标准、数字物品的长期保存、伦理标准和档案馆间的互操作性。如果没有一个协调的计划，数字获取的承诺就不会实现。该项目的第一步是举办一个由档案工作者、人类学家和技术专家组成的基础广泛的研讨会，以决定基本人类学数据的战略性综合计划的基础。第二步是散发计划大纲，充实细节，并在网上发布修订后的计划。第三步是与主要的人类学组织和参与或规划数字和保存活动的组织联络，以鼓励它们加入这一综合努力。研讨会的与会者还将讨论为未来的努力提供资金的实际方法。数据保存和共享是所有研究的核心。数字时代和网络为人类学研究人员提供了分享研究材料的新机会，包括对不再存在的民族和文化的独特第一手描述，其他人无法获得的描述，因为这些描述驻留在人类学家的办公室、文件柜、计算机、实验室或有限的访问储存库中。数据共享有赖于研究数据的保存。很多时候，主要的人类学数据会随着收集这些数据的人的疾病或死亡而丢失给学术界。这是研究投资潜在长期利益的损失，也是不可替代的数据的损失。保存和获得世界各地人类生活的观察不仅对人类学和其他社会科学很重要。公众对了解人类状况的方方面面有着浓厚的兴趣。制定数字保存和访问的协调计划应引起图书馆、档案馆、储存库和信息技术专家的兴趣，并可作为其他学科保存和访问计划的典范。

This award supports the creation of a comprehensive plan for digital preservation and access for primary anthropological data, including fieldnotes, photographs, measurements, and recordings. The goal is a strategic and coordinated plan that includes methods and standards for digitization, long-term preservation of digital objects, ethical standards, and inter-archive interoperability. Without a coordinated plan, the promise of digital access will not be achieved.The first step in this project to hold a broad-based workshop of archivists, anthropologists, and technology specialists to decide on the basics of a strategic integrated plan for primary anthropological data. The second step is to circulate the plan outline, flesh out the details, and disseminate a revised plan on the web. The third step is to liaison with major anthropological organizations and organizations engaged in or planning digital and preservation activities to encourage them to join this integrated effort. The workshop conferees will also discuss practical ways to fund future efforts.Data preservation and sharing are central to all research. The digital age and the web have given anthropological researchers new opportunities for sharing research materials, including unique firsthand accounts of peoples and cultures that no longer exist, accounts unavailable to others because they reside in anthropologists' offices, file cabinets, computers, laboratories, or in limited access repositories. Data sharing depends upon research data being preserved. All too often, primary anthropological data are lost to the scholarly world with the illness or death of the person who collected them. This is a loss of potential long-term benefit from research investment as well as loss of irreplaceable data.Preservation and access to the observations of human life around the world are not just important for anthropology and other social sciences. The public has a strong interest in understanding all aspects of the human condition. The development of a coordinated plan for digital preservation and access should be of interest to libraries, archives, repositories, and information technology specialists and may serve as a model for preservation and access programs in other disciplines.